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A well-informed citizenry is the most powerful revolutionary force in our Constitutional republic.

My position on an Article V Constitutional Convention:

The first convention held in 1786 was called in order to revise the Articles of Confederation, not replace the document with a new Constitution. A contemporary Second convention would be called upon application of 34 states for the purpose of proposing an amendment, or amendments. There is no controlling authority, not Congress, not the President, not the United Nations Charter, and not even the Supreme Law of the land, the U.S. Constitution itself which would rein in modern-day delegates.

Delegates were not restrained or hampered in any way during the original convention to their original mission, and there is no reason to expect modern-day delegates would be limited in any way by any one, even the U.S. Constitution's Article V!

Delegates from fifty state legislatures, chosen not by we, the people, but by state representatives, many not to be trusted on matters of state import, let alone Constitutional import, not we, the people, would be sent to a convention.

During the first convention, the delegates altered even the method of states' ratification from unanimous to three-fourths. Nine, not thirteen states, were enough to replace the Articles of Confederation with an entirely new form of government. Luckily for us, the U.S. Constitution adopted by our Founding Framers sought to protect individual rights. Contemporary delegates could alter the requirements for their own purposes.

My book-in-progress BLOODLESS REVOLUTION: A MORE PERFECT TREASON will be online as soon as possible.

COURT OF REASON (Robert Hutchins and The Fund for the Republic), Frank K. Kelly, 1981.

COURT OVER THE CONSTITUTION: A STUDY OF JUDICIAL REVIEW AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT, Edward. S. Corwin, 1938.

CREATIVE FEDERALISM, William A. Jump, 196.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND THE CONSTITUTION: LEADING SUPREME COURT CASES, 1994 edition, Jarold H. Israel, and others, 1994. Chapter 2, "The Nature and Scope of the 14th Amendment Due Process and The Applicability of the Bill of Rights to the States."